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  • Oppose Graham Platner for His Socialism, Not Just His Outrageous Behavior

    Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
    by William L Anderson

    “Thanks in large part to the erratic and often-destructive policies coming from Donald Trump’s White House, the Democrats are favored to win both houses of Congress, as they hope to flip several Republican-held seats in the House and the Senate. One of the most closely-watched races is the Senate campaign in Maine, where upstart Democrat Graham Platner is favored to end Sen. Susan Collins’s long political career. Platner’s campaign has been deemed controversial mostly because of his unhinged behavior with women, his Nazi tattoo, and social media statements that alone would have disqualified most people even before they could run for office. … the political crudeness that has become the hallmark of Trump and his MAGA followers is not the reason that someone as morally compromised as Platner is now the darling of the Democratic Party. Instead, they love Platner because of his unabashed fealty to socialism.” (06/18/26)

    https://mises.org/mises-wire/oppose-graham-platner-his-socialism-not-just-his-outrageous-behavior

  • Foundations of Public Choice: A Primer

    Source: EconLog
    by Michael Munger

    “Public Choice is more than you think. The usual quick definition — ‘applying economics to the study of politics’ — is not wrong, but it’s facile. Public Choice asks how political actors use information and respond to incentives. That’s a lot more than just an application of economic tools to a new context.” (06/18/26)

    https://www.econlib.org/library/columns/y2026/mungerpublicchoice

  • After the Iran War, is UAE the odd man out?

    Source: Responsible Statecraft
    by Giorgio Cafiero

    “The roles played by Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Turkey in facilitating the ‘Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding’ underscore the extent to which regional actors have invested in creating off-ramps for the United States and Iran, and steering the conflict away from further escalation. Across the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), this diplomatic off-ramp has garnered broad relief that the conflict appears to be moving toward de-escalation as Washington and Tehran prepare for talks on the sensitive nuclear and non-nuclear issues. But where the United Arab Emirates (UAE) fits into this broader picture is far from straightforward.” (06/18/26)

    https://responsiblestatecraft.org/uae-iran-war/

  • Strategic Ambiguity (If We Must)

    Source: Libertarian Institute
    by Joseph Solis-Mullen

    “In recent years, critics on both sides of the aisle have taken aim at the longstanding policy of strategic ambiguity toward Taiwan. They argue that Washington should abandon ambiguity and embrace ‘strategic clarity,’ explicitly pledging to fight China over Taiwan. Others, such as Hoover Institute Fellow Eyck Freymann, have offered more sophisticated sounding alternatives like ‘structured ambiguity,’ attempting to codify precisely what America would and would not do in various contingencies, particularly involving gray zone activities. But abandoning a long-established policy that, whatever its faults, has prevented a major war between great powers for over half a century, in favor of a new policy, would be a serious mistake.” (06/18/26)

    https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/strategic-ambiguity-if-we-must/

  • Sound Money, Artificial Intelligence, and the Pope

    Source: Cobden Centre
    by Max Rangeley

    “How to safeguard the human person in the time of artificial intelligence? It is hardly a surprise that Pope Leo XIV in answering that question in his first encyclical does not include money as part of the solution. More is the pity. The present unsound money regime has abetted vast malinvestment in the digital revolution now in its AI phase. Malinvestment takes various forms and is driven by mal signalling in capital markets caused by monetary inflation. Alongside the legal and constitutional backbone of the free-market economy falters. The build-up of the surveillance state is one consequence. All of this endangers ‘the human person.'” (06/18/26)

    https://www.cobdencentre.org/2026/06/sound-money-artificial-intelligence-and-the-pope/

  • The Voter’s Audit: How to Spot a True Fiscal Conservative in 2026

    Source: Karl Dickey’s Freedom Vanguard
    by Karl Dickey

    “Don’t be fooled by campaign rhetoric. Here is how to evaluate voting records and hold Florida candidates accountable this election cycle.” (06/17/26)

    https://palmbeachexaminer.substack.com/p/the-voters-audit-how-to-spot-a-true

  • This Is Why Missouri Families Need Choice

    Source: Show-Me Institute
    by Susan Pendergrass

    “Why do families need school choice? The answer is straightforward — a single, zip-code-assigned school cannot possibly be everything to every child. And when a school fails a student, that student needs a lifeline. A recent iteration of EdChoice’s long-running Public Opinion Tracker survey shows that roughly one in four parents indicate that they have had to switch their children’s school at some point. When you dig into why these families are switching, the reasons are straightforward. Parents pull their children out of schools because of unfortunate, everyday problems that directly impact a child’s well-being and future.” (06/17/26)

    https://showmeinstitute.org/article/education/this-is-why-missouri-families-need-choice/

  • Ida B. Wells: Journalist, activist, civil rights icon, and free speech hero

    Source: Expression
    by Angel Eduardo

    “Through her detailed reporting on lynching after the Civil War, Wells did more than most to demonstrate the power of using one’s voice in the pursuit of truth and justice.” (06/17/26)

    https://expression.fire.org/p/ida-b-wells-journalist-activist-civil

  • Liberalism in the Age of Weaponized Interdependence

    Source: Liberalism.org
    by Paul Dragos Aligica

    “From time to time, we liberals must rethink the world. Deglobalization, the rise of economic decoupling, the return of tariffs, and the increasing salience of weaponized interdependence have come to define the current landscape. Where once the dominant terms were efficiency, integration, and mutual gains, now they are geoeconomics, resilience, chokepoints, and decoupling. The vocabulary shift is an indicator and a diagnostic. Rhetorical change of this order reflects structural change in how economic exchange and political power actually relate. A liberal position adequate to that new reality cannot be built by repeating arguments shaped by an earlier phase of globalization. We must rebuild — analytically and institutionally — for the world that integration, pushed to its limits, has actually produced.” (06/17/26)

    https://www.liberalism.org/p/liberalism-in-the-age-of-weaponized-interdependence

  • Forgotten Declaration: Why they were Fighting Back

    Source: Tenth Amendment Center
    by Michael Boldin

    “Thomas Jefferson, John Dickinson, and the Second Continental Congress said those were their two terrible options less than three months after the battles of Lexington and Concord and the ‘shot heard ‘round the world.’ This is the story of the forgotten declaration in which they explained why they fought back.” (06/17/26)

    https://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2026/06/17/forgotten-declaration-why-they-were-fighting-back/

  • Trump in Defeat

    Source: The Atlantic
    by Jonathan Lemire

    “President Trump lost. The war he waged against Iran promises to conclude in a humbling whimper with the signing of a cease-fire agreement later this week. The United States is left weaker — diminished militarily, strategically, economically, and perhaps morally. The war, which the United States fought alongside Israel, accomplished none of the goals that Trump named at the outset. Instead, it only empowered the hard-liners in Tehran and arguably emboldened them to someday seek a nuclear weapon. … Trump won’t admit to any of this. He has spent recent days furiously spinning the tentative deal as a clear win, and has seethed at unflattering comparisons with the deal that President Obama struck with Iran more than a decade ago, aides and outside advisers told me.” (06/17/26)

    https://archive.is/I4Oz8